Mr. Franklin instantly took on not to have noticed the girls either.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

If any of the sober counsellors give him good advice, and move him in anything that is to his good and honour, the other part, which are his counsellers of pleasure, take him when he is with my Lady Castlemaine, and in a humour of delight, and then persuade him that he ought not to hear nor listen to the advice of those old dotards or counsellors that were heretofore his enemies: when, God knows!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

What had before seemed to her terrible, heroic, marvellous, and had stirred her envy and enthusiasm, did not touch her now at all, and usually after listening to me, she stretched and said: "Yes, 'great things were done in days of yore,' my good sir."
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He felt he could not move, neither towards her nor away from her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It is true, that of things having form, there is not any nearer to having no form, than the earth and the deep.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

One night, a couple of brother Jacobins are doorkeepers; for the members take this post of duty and honour in rotation, and admit none that have not tickets: one doorkeeper was the worthy Sieur Lais, a patriotic Opera-singer, stricken in years, whose windpipe is long since closed without result; the other, young, and named Louis Philippe, d'Orleans's firstborn, has in this latter time, after unheard-of destinies, become Citizen-King, and struggles to rule for a season.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But no; Tom had never heard that these measures would brighten the understanding, or strengthen the verbal memory; and he was not given to hypothesis and experiment.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Unite now all created spirits and persons to this externation of the typical cause, by a principle of which we shall speak in the next article; unite their nature to his nature, their intelligence to his intelligence, their will to his will, their life to his life, their bliss to his bliss; and we shall have one universal society, partaking of the nature, the intelligence, the will, the life, the bliss, of the Theanthropos; and thus not only united with each other, and meeting each other in one common medium and centre, but also presenting a divine society whose bond of union is the intelligence, will, life, bliss, of the Theanthropos communicated to them all; and through him and by him ushered into the eternal society of the Trinity.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

We explained to them our destitute condition, telling them that we were again about out of provisions, and would be sorry to have them leave, for while they were near they had never let us suffer for meat.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

The new tonality had not only made a great difference in the harmonic aspect of music, it had virtually opened a new field by suggesting the first possibilities of form and structure.
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

They were very near the house now.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

There was quite a nape to her neck.
— from The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst

she exclaimed as soon as her young mistress entered, afraid of saying too much, now that her nursling had become a married woman.
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

This is the ideal temperature, neither too hot nor too cold.
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

Its supporters are the Southern gentry,—fine fellows, no doubt, but not republicans exactly, as we understand the term,—a few Northern millionnaires more or less thoroughly millioned, who do not represent the real people, and the mob of sporting men, the best of whom are commonly idlers, and the worst very bad neighbors to have near one in a crowd, or to meet in a dark alley.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And then his mother gently said: "Nay, father: do not tease him now: He's quite worn out: and needs a deal Of quiet sleep: and, after all, He brought his sister safe from school."
— from Fires - Book 2: The Ovens, and Other Tales by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson